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Jimmy Scott: The Savoy Years And More...
by AAJ Staff
While time may heal all wounds, sometimes you wonder why those wounds are ever inflicted in the first place. Little Jimmy Scott, after years of as a cult figure in an on-again, off-again career in singing, is enjoying a resurgence in interest in his seventies. People like Nancy Wilson and Frankie Valli and Nancy Wilson understood ...
Various Artists: The Savoy Story: Volume One- Jazz
by C. Andrew Hovan
You truly need a score card to keep up with the distribution end of the Savoy label over the past five to ten years or so. Going as far back as this reviewer can remember, Muse was reissuing the catalog on vinyl and then CD, usually with re-done covers. A bit further down the road, things ...
Marc Copland: Softly
by Joel Roberts
One of the intriguing things about pianist Marc Copland is that he started out playing the saxophone and was enjoying a successful career on that instrument, including a stint with the Chico Hamilton Quintet and an album with guitarist John Abercrombie, when he decided to switch gears and take up the piano. And after several years ...
Art Blakey: Midnight Session
by John Sharpe
In the fall of 1956, Blakey introduced a new edition of the Jazz Messengers with Jackie McLean (alto), Bill Hardman (trumpet), Sam Dockery (piano) and Spanky DeBrest(bass). Over the next 25 years Blakey's bands would go through many personnel changes (sometimes it seems as if everyone in jazz has worked with Art) but the hard bop ...
